Exclusive Comics Excerpt: ‘Wizzywig’How does a boy with a knack for taking things apart become a young man feared and admired as one of the world’s most dangerous hackers?
Know Your Jonas Brothers OverlordsIf the Jonas Brothers are, as we suspect, about to take over the entire world, it would behoove you to meet your tyrannous overlords before you’re forced to kneel at their bejeweled feet.
MoMA’s Glenn Lowry Bares All in DubaiDuring his keynote address at the United Arab Emirates’ Global Art Forum this weekend, Glenn Lowry threw caution — and local Muslim custom — to the wind.
‘Mask,’ the Musical, Complete With Horrifying MakeupPlus: Monks get a Gregorian chant record deal, Clint Eastwood’s movie might be Oscar bait after all, and The New Yorker raves one play but really recommends another.
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Madonna Delivers a Sugar RushPlus a new track from Silver Jews, Snoop’s country move, and a Peaches remix of the B-52s.
Introduce Them to This Nineties Detective-Cartoon GemWe’re grateful that the NYC-based private-detective series is getting a three-DVD issuing, giving kids a chance to soak up creator Steve Purcell’s wordy impudence, along with his crazy imagination.
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Judd Apatow Maintains Dedication to Onscreen WangsIn a move clearly intended to assuage fans who might otherwise riot at Drillbit Taylor’s lack of fresh sausage, Apatow reveals in an interview that the next film from the Apatow Comedy-Industrial Complex will pack heat.
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Exclusive Comics Excerpt: ‘Paul Goes Fishing’Today on the Comics Page, we’re proud to present an excerpt from Paul Goes Fishing, fourth in Michel Rabagliati’s autobiographical series of graphic novels.
Michael Cera Is Scott Pilgrim!Cera will play Bryan Lee O’Malley’s lovable comic-book slacker; Geena Davis returns to TV; and Suzan Lori-Parks will direct Fences on Broadway.
Jeffrey Sachs Has Actual Solutions For Poverty, PollutionObama’s looking for a new foreign-policy adviser, and he could do far worse than Columbia’s superstar economist, that rare critic of the Bush administration and the global power structure who deigns to offer actual solutions.
Shelby Lynne Meets Dusty and Does Right by HerRecorded in just five days, with only one original track, and based on a concept hatched by Barry Manilow, this Nashville refugee’s latest sounds like a stopgap at best — until you actually listen to it.
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Artist Kim Jones Doodles on SelfArt sort of becomes artist here, but we can’t help being reminded of that freaky YouTube video that’s been circulating lately of the unfortunate Indonesian man turning into a tree.
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Columbia Professor Gathers Data at GunpointIn his penetrating book Gang Leader for a Day, the Columbia prof recounts his time infiltrating and, yes, overseeing, for one day, Chicago’s gangbangers.